Sentimental Journey
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Brand: PBSEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Sony Music Distribution
Soundtracks:
- WE LL MEET AGAIN Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
- DANCING IN THE DARK Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
- LITTLE BROWN JUG Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
- I LL BE SEEING YOU Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
- MOONGLOW Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
- MEMORIES OF YOU Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- I LL GET BY Harry James & His Orchestra
- ON THE ALAMO Benny Goodman & His Sextet
- PENNIES FROM HEAVEN Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
- BODY AND SOUL Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
- LET S GET LOST Frank Sinatra
- BLUES IN THE NIGHT Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
- THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
- ECHOES OF HARLEM Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters
- SKLARK Earl Hines & His Orchestra
- SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE LONELIEST 17.NIGHT OF THE WEEK Frank Sinatra
- PAPER DOLL The Mills Brothers
- LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY Frank Sinatra
- SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Les Brown & His Orchestra
- WAITING FOR THE TAIN TO COME IN Harry James & His Orchestra
Free Music Notes for Sentimental Journey
Free Music Review: An Upscale Look at Some of the Best Numbers of World War II
Hit: 5 Stars
An intriquing and fascinating selection! If you're not interested in a complete box set of all the music there are four separate CDs accompanying Ken Burns' World War II Documentary. Two - this one, "Sentimental Journey", and the album titled "I'm Beginning to See the Light" - showcase sensational popular music selections, among the best from what is commonly referred to as the Swing Era. For some, this reviewer included, the Swing Era at its best produced the most distinctive and thrilling popular music in our history. This was a time with numbers such as the Benny Goodman explosion on, "Swing, Swing, Swing", with a very young Harry James' striking trumpet work utterly overshadowed by Gene Krupa's insane and mythic drum solo. You had arguably the greatest rhythm section of perhaps any time in Count Basie's "One O'clock Jump". And when you add Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and the rest it's all just plain mindboggling. Burns' did fascinating work in his documentary on American Jazz and his grasp of the lives of the early jazz musicians brings a quiet assurance to the selections on these CDs. Heavily weighted away from merely compiling the popular hits of the day, the two CDs are geared for a modern audience rather than an audience seeking nostalgia. This is not to suggest that the two CDs contain off beat stuff for jazz aficionados only, not at all! These are loaded with gold - many of the choices were huge hits, some will sound almost too familiar to anyone over fifty. The title song, "Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown was one of the biggest hits of the War, topping the billboard of 1945.
There are, however, several caveats to this collection, "Sentimental Journey" and the other CD, "I'm Beginning to See the Light". First, overall this list simply doesn't reflect the general taste, the favorite songs of the day. Whatever the rationalizations, it's both bad history and misleading to offer three songs by Sinatra but little from the female vocalists. Dear Mr. Burns - cold and lonely guys around the world weren't listening in their foxholes and bunks to the voice of Frank Sinatra. And when somebody played "Skylark" chances are it was a female voice they chose. Kitty Kallen's work on the title song to the other CD is not even noted on the notes above - why? Because her name is unknown? It's hard to beleive that argument could be given to the singer on the title song of this CD, Sentimental Journey. Her name - Doris Day. Let's give credit where credit is due.
Also, two albums of contemporary World War II hits without der Bingel or the Andrews Sisters? The CD of the documentary sountrack does include one song by Bing Crosby, but there should also be one on one of these CDs as well. In 1944 Bing and the trio had 6 hits in the top 15, including numbers one and three. And I could list several dozen similar 'oversights.
However; to quote 1945's #6 hit by Johnny Mercer, with these selections it's easy to "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive!" This is a fine and even distinquished collection: the chosen selections avoid a brainless list of wartime favorites, many now hopelessly dated, and in the process set forth what an exalted level of music-making was taking place. Burns understands some of the most popular films of the time are almost unwatchable by modern viewers - for every Casablanca there's also yet another Fox musical. So instead of a song like "Mairzy Doates" or the "Pennsylvannia Polka" we have instead an extra Artie Shaw or Count Basie. Thank Goodness!
I'm also happy the price is so fair - it didn't have to be.
Sentimental Journey Poster
As they lived through the cataclysmic events of World War II, Americans both in the service and on the home front found a safe harbor, emotionally, in the buoyant sounds of popular music. Classic titles from The Great American Songbook served, with the highest distinction, as an indispensable part of the war effort, lightening the burden of sacrifice as well as giving voice to the deepest feelings of loneliness, sorrow and anxious hope. From the breezy bounce of Little Brown Jug to the aching romance of I ll Be Seeing You, these are the songs in these unforgettable recordings that built the confidence of a nation in its darkest days.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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